All time fave Tape Op articles

tonewoods · Post by **tonewoods** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:54 am

Great thread that get us all goin' for the stacks...

Yeah, Emitt Rhodes for sure....

Loved the John Hardy interview...

Jon Brion, Buddy Miller, Malcolm Burn, Daniel Lanois and their "outta-control-room" ethetics and let-it-bleed inpirations....

Cosimo Matassa and The Rolling Stones at Muscle Shoals for their take on historical recordings...

Tucker Martine for local Seattle color and cool....

Best future article....?

A grand tour of Kearney Barton's place in Seattle.

One room and a control room, a lathe in the corner, piles of stuff all over the place, U47s and C12s everywhere, Coke Bottles and a 666 on the kit, old school board and monitoring, etc. etc. etc....

The place is the same as it was when he recorded "Louie Louie", or at least it looks like it is....

My gawd, what history and vibe exudes out of that place...
And the guy loves to talk and is funny as shit...

That one begs to be written....

mjau · Post by **mjau** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 4:26 pm

I was able to track down the Mario C interview, and it's my new favorite.

vernier · Post by **vernier** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:22 am

Bob Olhsson

John Stephens

Stephen Barncard (still waiting for this one)

modernkicks · Post by **modernkicks** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:11 am

The Kevin Shields interview was one of the most interesting interviews I've ever read in ANY magazine....all the mystery,,,REVEALED!

bocmaxima · Post by **bocmaxima** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:23 pm

I have to give a nod to the Phil Brown excerpts too.

I liked the 2 part guitar tuning article by Jack Endino, I learned a buttload from that.

I enjoyed the interview with Mike Mogis quite a bit, same with Nick Mason

All the Recording Recipies and anything DIY

leigh · Post by **leigh** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:34 pm

mjau wrote:
TapeOpLarry wrote:Mario C was in a back issue. I don't remember which one. Around 5 years ago.
Awesome, thanks...I need to find that now.

sweetsci wrote:Mario C. was in issue #27, January / February 2002. Great issue - included J Mascis, Spoon, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and the New Pornographers.

Give a man a fish...

For those who want to learn to fish, remember you can always check the handy back issues page yourself:

http://www.tapeop.com/magazine/backissues.php

Cheers,
Leigh

uk03878 · Post by **uk03878** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:22 am

Over the past 6 months I have spent well over USD200 on the back issues (sssh don't tell the missus!)
I love the magazine for the ability to fold over so I can read it in bed (if that makes sense) - I have the book - but don;t want to break the spine so it doesn;t get read as oftrn
I haev all my Tape Ops in a pile next to the bed (dedication)

Anyway - best articles

Muscle Shoals - Brown Sugar
Malcolm Toft
Real World
Andy Hong's Gear Reviews where he goes into detail about how the thing works from your ears point of view (ie the FATSO or was it the Lil EQ - thing - I forget)
Phil Brown's stuff
Behind the Gear reviews (I would say that - I asked Larry if I could write one and he said "yes send it in!")

Although I apprecaite the eye opener - the Pavement stuff just goes way over my head.

JASIII · Post by **JASIII** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:38 pm

Andy Johns (he gave away the "when the levee breaks" drum sound secrets)

scott macdonald · Post by **scott macdonald** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:40 pm

Hank Shocklee for his incredible enthusiasm.

Spiderhead69 · Post by **Spiderhead69** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:09 pm

I too enjoyed the Hank Shoklee article, His take on the historical aspects of PE was enjoyable and his love for creating shone through.

I also enjoyed the Sigur Ros article, the Andy Johns interview and many of the gear reviews.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:50 pm

Shakira is having sex!
http://shakiranudeworld.info/movies/61464

syrupcore · Post by **syrupcore** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:35 pm

Hank Shockley and Kevin Shields.

Close and distant seconds: Carol Kaye, Phil Ramone, Walter 'take too much moog credit, RTFM' Sear, Rudy Van Gelder, guitar tuning, lanois, any number of 'letters' section action.

biggest dissapointment: John Leckie.

Johnny B · Post by **Johnny B** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:49 pm

A few years ago, I was in Boston with my girlfriend. We were visiting one of her friends who had moved there. We were in this weird, for lack of a better word, "kitsch" store. You know, the kind of place that sells weird gen x knick-knacks: things with ducks and skulls on them, weird toys, and all that. This particular place also had a few shelves of books. I was looking through the books and saw one called Tape Op: The Book About Creative Music Recording. I flipped through it and saw the Jack Endino article, "How to Overproduce a Rock Record." I was sold.

Since that time, there have been many more, but my particular faves are : Hank Shocklee, Walter Sear (probably the only time a TO interviewee has made me visibly angry-good on ya!), Melvin Gibbs, all the stuff in the Memphis issue, Chad Clark (that guy is awesome, have you heard the Minor Threat and Fugazi re-masters?!?), Le Tigre, Rudy Van Gelder, every DIY article.

Oh, and Phill Brown.

BrianK · Post by **BrianK** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:07 am

Walter Sear, and props to the people who admitted they hated it and still listed it. I loved it and agree with him about so many things. I look forward to more controversial articles in the future.

People who "lead" by doing something different are far more inspiring (either way) than those who succeed at doing what everybody does!

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